Rhoscolyn Lookout Station is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Anglesey local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 June 1998. Lookout station.

Rhoscolyn Lookout Station

WRENN ID
silver-lancet-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Constituency
Ynys Môn MP: Llinos Medi (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 June 1998
Type
Lookout station
OS grid reference
SH 270 746
Coordinates
53.24045, -4.59316
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Rhoscolyn Lookout Station is a single-storey, square building with a castellated design, constructed from local rubble. It features a single square-headed doorway on the north face, which has a slate plaque above it dedicated to Edward Rae, dated 1902. The other three sides of the building have large square-headed openings. The lead-covered flat roof collapsed in 1998.

Local climate

Rhoscolyn Lookout Station sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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